James Nsaba Buturo simply can't help himself! The Ugandan "Ethics" Minister, who has long pledged to fight the homosexual scourge besieging his homeland, recently insisted that anti-gay activists shouldn't fear violent repercussions because God's on their side:

¨Dr Buturo told Africa's Sunday Monitor that there is no need to beef up security for anti-gay activists in Uganda because God is protecting them.¨

"It's true gays are rough people but men of God should not fear their intimidation. Ugandans should strengthen their mobilisation against the gay movement because the government is also committed to support them," he said.

Buturo also spoke about how the gays have infiltrated local schools and are "luring" students to the lavender side.

The government and loyalists, said Buturo, should begin compiling a list of suspected queer interlopers and, you know, have a good, old fashioned witch hunt: "I appeal to the investigative arms of the government to quickly compile reports of such students and their schools so that tough action is taken against them."

¨The Minister of Ethics and Integrity, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo has today told a conference organized to discuss the ways to fight Homosexuality that he will soon submit a bill on pornography and homosexuality for discussion in Parliament.

The conference that took place at Parliament was organized by Defend the Family International, an organization in the United States of America that was formed to fight homosexuality.¨

¨The President of Defend the Family International, Scott Lively says it is good for the government of Uganda to criminalize homosexuality but the government should subject the criminals of homosexuality to a therapy rather than imprisoning them.¨

¨Lively says this is aimed at the criminals recovering from homosexuality which is the main objective of those fighting homosexuality and not to punish homosexuals through imprisonment. He says even schools should borrow this idea of therapy in dealing with gay students.¨

DEADLY WARNING: Anglican Fundamentalist/Extremists Bishops Pete Akinola of Nigeria and Henri Orombi of Uganda threaten the right for LGBT Christians and other to EXIST and exclude LGBT ANGLICANS at all levels of Churchlife!

¨I thought I was being a bit hard on the fundamentalists yesterday, because for the life of me I try to be fair and I dislike attacking anyone's sincere religious beliefs.

However, sodomy law advocacy goes too far. So does Holocaust denial.

So does threatening my right to peacefully exist.¨ Eric

¨They are despicable, they are The Enemy, and I'm proud to be intolerant of their kind. Legal toleration (i.e., First Amendment), yes. Any other kind, no, none whatsoever, no quarter, no moral sanction whatsoever, none, period. I'll stop calling what they are, ChristiaNazis, the minute they finally stop acting like Nazis or Communists and not one minute sooner.

And, by the way, the first person to bring up "Goodwin's law" has lost the argument. "Goodwin's law" is a crock, and this Prof. Goodwin is either a crypto-Nazi himself or else at best a useful idiot paving the way for another Auschwitz.¨

¨Kampala Anti-gay activists in Uganda Saturday formed a pressure group to discourage homosexuality, following a two-day conference of religious leaders, teachers and social workers in the capital Kampala.

The group, to be called the Anti-Gay Task Force, is intended to "fight against the spread of homosexuality and lesbianism in the country," spokesman for the group Stephen Langa told reporters. Same sex-relationships and marriages are illegal in Uganda, and human rights groups have criticized the government for harassing homosexuals.

The task-force said that it would one day "wipe out" gay practices in the African state.¨

Despite the odious rhetoric and violent imagery brought to the table by Scott Lively, the fallacy of “preventing homosexuality” and "blaming a parent" contributed by Exodus’ Don Schmierer, and the predictable babble coming from International Healing Foundation’s Caleb Brundidge, the following stood out to us as perhaps the most disheartening bit of all.¨

URGENT! BREAKING NEWS! THURSDAY! "Homosexuality is a 'moral and social holocaust" Anglican Church of Nigeria:

Bishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, demonizer of fellow Christians and others, also leads a insidious campaign to nationalize/institutionalize fear and hate at every level of Nigerian society by abominating/demoralizing LGBT Christians, Muslims and others.

OPPRESSIVE, SEVERE and ANTI-GAY Human Rights Legislation is being considered at THE NIGERIAN House of Representatives TODAY! Read it all at Gay Uganda and Changing Attitudes (both at the right side bar).

The South African Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (SA GLAAD) have added their voices over the Exodus International board member Don Schmierer’s participation at the anti-gay conference alongside Holocaust revisionist Scott Lively in Kampala Uganda.

A DUMB, DEPRESSING DOCUMENT FROM PETER AKINOLA AND HIS CHURCH IN NIGERIA

"Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans has received a five-page document (PDF here),signed by Peter Akinola and submitted by the Church of Nigeria in support of legislation that would outlaw same sex marriage, which is already illegal."

LATE FRIDAY NIGHT FROM THE U.K. "THE LATEST HATE SPEECH FROM THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA"

"If ever you think the Anglican church of Nigeria cannot get more incoherently bigoted about gay people, you're wrong. The latest proof comes in a position paper (pdf) submitted by the church to a parliamentary committee which is planning a law against gay marriage. Homosexuality is already illegal in Nigeria, of course, as is gay marriage. But the proposed law would provide three years in jail for gay couples who got married, and five years for any witnesses. Earlier drafts have proposed long jail sentences, also, for anyone who argues in favour of gay marriage."

A WEEK LATER AND A TUESDAY AFTERNOON FINAL FOLLOWUP ON THE UGANDAN ANTI-LGBT CONFERENCE AT KAMPALA:

MORE INSENSITIVE SPEWING of BOLD IGNORANCE and FASCIST MEANSPIRITED ARROGANCE as DEADLY SCOTT LIVELY DEFENDS HIS DEMENTED and OBSESSIVE CONVICTION TO "FIX LGBT PEOPLE" WITH HIS SPECIAL "THERAPY." IMAGINE, MR LIVELY IS ATTEMPTING TO BLAME EMOTIONAL ILLNESS on LGBT CITIZENS IN A COUNTRY WHERE DISCRIMINATION,HATE,THEFT, RAPE ARE RUNNING RAMPANT and in a country with CIVIL WAR and EVERYDAY TRIBAL and RELIGIOUS CORRUPTION AT ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY. DEADLY NATIONAL PROBLEMS WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GAY PEOPLE. BTW, HOW MUCH MONEY DOES MR DEADLY LIVELY CHARGE FOR HIS MIRACLE CURE from HOMOSEXUALITY?

*NOTE TO MR LIVELY; RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOLISM ONLY REQUIRES "WILLINESS" and a "DESIRE TO STOP DRINKING" and it is FREE...it is "suggested" that you "do" start paying attention to your own "character defects"...your own, Mr. Lively, and stay out of mine and other peoples personal affairs...you may have missed the part about "God Grant Me the Serenity, to accept the things I can NOT change, the courage to change the things I CAN and the WISDOM to know the difference." Emphasis on wisdom, it's a responsible "first person" kind of thing to do to keep a eye on ones own personal character and will help you exclude fear and hate-mongering tangents/obsessions or "fund raising" activities that exploit others from your recovery from active alcoholism...only a suggestion, I've been sober for 30+ years, thanks be to God, and it's worked well for me to keep my eye on my "less than attractive/unwholesome" character defects. I strongly encourage you to do the same and STOP pontificating about other peoples ill-character (that is, the bad character that YOU perceive it to be).*

Are you on a dry, egodriven, fear/hatedriven drunk?

Holocaust revisionist Scott Lively offered a defense of his proposal to compel Ugandan gays and lesbians into forced therapy:

"And remember that homosexuality is literally illegal in this country. Imagine how bad things would be if the criminal law were abandoned. By the way, the false accusation against me, now circulating in the US, is that I called on the Ugandan government to force homosexuals into therapy. What I actually said is that the law against homosexuality should be liberalized to give arrestees the choice of therapy instead of imprisonment, similar to the therapy option I chose after being arrested for drunk driving in 1985 (during which time I accepted the Lord and was healed and transformed into a Christian activist)." [Emphasis in the original]

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A very special thank you to ¨Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" the upcoming book By Michelle Goldberg (available for pre-order at Amazon.com)

Thanks Fran for coming by...this morning I´m even more amazed that the UGANDAN Government would PAY GOOD MONEY to finance such crude and unenlightened fictional antics and promote FEAR AND HATE in such a obvious way with classless ¨imported¨ rabble rousers of such low quality...anti-Gay Propaganda seems to be a HOT TICKET of destraction from the gross corruption, war and everyday vileness that is running rampant in Uganda, matters little how ¨good¨ or ¨believeable¨the destraction REALLY is...might as well blame someone, and try and look like one is ¨doing something¨ and ¨knows something about ethics¨ than being unable to cope with the run-away unhappiness of seeing ones society so rotted at the core...Bush did a similar thing and it worked for a while and Karl Rove was only slightly more clever at fueling a destraction than ¨Ethics¨ Minister Buturo...he used more ¨believeable¨ sources than these three shifty jokers. The most horrible part is that ¨religious zealots¨ BELIEVE ALMOST ANYTHING (they think comes from another self-proclaimed ¨Godly¨ blowhard...they intend to not only exclude LGBT Christians/others in everyday life but persecute them to the max...for this, they´ve reinvented ¨colonial¨ influence (to blame later?) with the voices of ¨Scott Lively, with the fallacy of “preventing homosexuality” and blaming a parent contributed by Exodus’ Don Schmierer, and the predictable babble coming from International Healing Foundation’s Caleb Brundidge¨...all of these fit into the far right extemist beliefs that make hate for sale, fear for rent and jail, murder, outcasting and demonizing available at a price...imagine, gaining such a ¨consulting rehabiliting contract¨ (encouraged at school level too) from a country the size of Uganda (former home of the living, now dead, monster Idi Amin)...there is a historical cultural pattern here of despotic behavior that precludes nothing in terms of vicious activities of ¨persecution¨ both within and outside of the Government...the Anglican Bishop Henri Orombi has already joined the voices clammouring for the DESTRUCTION of LGBT citizens through a ¨witch hunt¨ to cure Ugandas ¨imported¨ LGBT sickness.

I think the part that is realling sinking in is that this is a racket! Anti LGBT fear/hatemongering then results in a panic to ¨fix¨ LGBT people...guess which quacks are seeking the contract from the Ugandan Parliament (or at least a few gulliable Churchgroups)? Meanwhile Orombi gets booted out of the churches he´s poached on in the U.S. (but organizes piles of bigots with money to keep flowing).

Leonardo, I just find it so hard to believe that anyone gets taken in by this type of extremist thinking. But, they do...so it's good that you keep me incredulous about these stories. There's enough of the "other" side spouting off on the 'Net, so people get all kinds of crazy misconceptions.

I wasn't aware that you gays were now considered rough people. The stereotypes usually are the opposite. Youse guyz must be going to the gym more, huh?

Hi Leonardo!I just read your article and I am filled with disguist at our African leaders.What agitates me most is the fact that OUR leaders have the audacity to use GOD's name in this. Not only this but that they employ an Anti-gay task force....Really, arent there many more important matters to deal with and spend the money on? Its unbelievable to me, that in 2009,human beings are still so hateful.I like your blog.Keep informing people, they say that ignorance is more expensive than education.It is very evident from the employment of an Anti-gay task force.... ;-)

I wasn't aware that you gays were now considered rough people. The stereotypes usually are the opposite. Youse guyz must be going to the gym more, huh? Lynn

LOL, well, one never knows where the nose goes (my friend Charles Benjamin used to say)...but ask the police about the terror they felt during the Stonewall riots that were initiated by Drag Queens...ask around, you'll see, I have found that LGBT may "appear" to be a little less "difficult" than one would imagine...one thing, for those who believe in living in a world of PRETEND, "wives tales" and the demeaning "labeling" of LGBT people...it is often LGBT people are the very people with whom they yammer on and on about and say vile things to our face (without knowing who we are or what our sexual experience/background is)...we are, remain and have always been your family members, best friends and coworkers (you can imagine how a lifetime of listening to this kind of crapola sits with LGBT's)...no, I wouldn't assume LGBT are a meek lot...that's not my experience no matter what "appears" to be...LGBT quite often will be "passive" while listening to nonsense...because many of us learned how to NOT BLINK or WINCE as children doesn't mean we are going to lie down and play dead for abusers, bigots and thieves.

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REAL HERO/REAL LIFE: Bishop John Shelby Spong

“I was simply interpreting a rising consciousness,” he said. “Whether it was race or women or homosexual people, the issue was always the same: fighting against anything that dehumanizes a child of God on the basis of an external characteristic.” Bishop John Shelby Spong (click on his photo)

¨Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?¨ Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu